Born on Wednesday, 7th May – Famous Birthdays

07/05/2004

Ashlyn Krueger, American tennis player

Ashlyn Rose Krueger is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 29, achieved on 14 July 2025, and a doubles ranking of world No. 62, achieved in August 2024. Krueger has won one singles title and one doubles title on the WTA Tour.

---

Minji, South Korean singer

Kim Min-ji, known mononymously as Minji, is a South Korean singer. Minji made her debut as a member of the South Korean girl group NewJeans, under the record label ADOR on July 22, 2022.

---

07/05/2002

Jake Bongiovi, American model and actor

Jacob Hurley Bongiovi is an American model and actor. He is the son of rock musician Jon Bon Jovi.

---

Andrew Barth Feldman, American actor and singer

Andrew Barth Feldman is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career in musical theater by participating in local productions as a child. Feldman won a Jimmy Award for his high school's production of the musical Catch Me If You Can in 2018. In 2019, he played the title role in the musical Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway.

---

07/05/1999

Tommy Fury, English boxer

Thomas Michael John Fury is a British reality television personality and professional boxer. He took time off from his boxing career in 2019 to star in the fifth series of the ITV2 dating reality television show Love Island. Along with his current partner, Molly-Mae Hague, he finished as a runner-up of the series. He is the younger brother of former world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury.

---

Cody Gakpo, Dutch footballer

Cody Mathès Gakpo is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left winger or centre forward for Premier League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.

---

07/05/1998

MrBeast, American YouTuber

James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber, media personality, philanthropist, and businessman. The founder of Beast Industries, a conglomerate that holds various media channels, MrBeast Burger, Feastables, Lunchly and more, he produces high-paced YouTube videos built around elaborate challenges and grandiose philanthropic efforts, that are noted for their high production values. With more than 475 million subscribers, his main channel is the most subscribed on YouTube. He also is the third most followed account on TikTok.

---

Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer

Daniel Olmo Carvajal is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for La Liga club Barcelona and the Spain national team.

---

Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player

Jesse Puljujärvi is a Finnish professional ice hockey player who is a winger for Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL).

---

07/05/1997

Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player

Daria Sergeyevna Kasatkina is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 8 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, achieved in October 2022. Kasatkina has won eight WTA Tour singles titles and one title in doubles. Her best results at the majors are reaching the semifinals at the 2022 French Open and the quarterfinals of the 2018 Wimbledon Championships.

---

Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer

Youri Marion A. Tielemans is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Aston Villa and captains the Belgium national team.

---

Cameron Young, American golfer

Cameron Young is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour, where he has won two titles.

---

07/05/1996

Lee "Faker" Sang-hyeok, South Korean League of Legends pro gamer

Lee Sang-hyeok, better known as Faker, is a South Korean professional League of Legends player. Debuting in 2013, he has played as the mid-laner for T1 for his entire career. He has won a record 10 League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) titles, two Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) titles, and a record six World Championship titles. Faker is widely regarded as the greatest League of Legends player in history and has drawn comparison analogizing him to basketball player Michael Jordan for his esports success.

---

07/05/1995

Seko Fofana, Ivorian international footballer

Seko Mohamed Fofana is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Primeira Liga club Porto, on loan from Ligue 1 club Rennes. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.

---

07/05/1993

Will Ospreay, English wrestler

William Peter Charles Ospreay is an English professional wrestler. As of November 2023, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a former two-time AEW International Champion. He also makes appearances for partner promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of United Empire and previously spent eight-years as a signed talent. He also works for Pro-Wrestling: EVE as a producer and a member of the creative team. Known for his in-ring ability, he is widely regarded as one of the best wrestlers in the world.

---

Ajla Tomljanovic, Australian tennis player

Ajla Tomljanović is a Croatian-Australian professional tennis player. On 3 April 2023, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 32. On 5 January 2015, she peaked at No. 47 in the doubles rankings. She has won four singles and three doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In November 2023, she won her first WTA 125 tournament, in Florianópolis, and in October 2024 her second WTA 125 title, in Hong Kong.

---

07/05/1992

Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor and musician

Alexander Richard Ludwig is a Canadian actor and country musician. He first began his career as a child, and then received recognition as a teenager for starring in the films The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007), Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and he is also known for starring as Cato in The Hunger Games (2012).

---

07/05/1990

Sydney Leroux, Canadian-American footballer

Sydney Rae Leroux is a Canadian-born American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

---

07/05/1989

Earl Thomas, American football player

Earl Winty Thomas III is an American former professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Longhorns and received consensus All-American honors and played in the 2010 BCS National Championship Game. He left after his redshirt sophomore year and he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. During his time with the Seahawks, he made six Pro Bowls and five All-Pro teams as he was a core member of the Legion of Boom defense, winning Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos and starting in Super Bowl XLIX. After nine seasons with Seattle, he signed with the Baltimore Ravens as a free agent and played one season while earning his seventh Pro Bowl invite.

---

07/05/1987

Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian

Aidy Bryant is an American actress and comedian. Bryant is most notable for being a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for ten seasons, joining the show for its 38th season in 2012, and leaving at the end of its 47th season in 2022. For her work on the series, she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including two nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

---

Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer

Mark Reynolds is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Highland League club Banks o' Dee. He began his career at Motherwell and has also played for Sheffield Wednesday, Aberdeen, Dundee United and Cove Rangers.

---

07/05/1986

Matt Helders, English drummer

Matthew Helders is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, who is the drummer and occasional singer of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He has also released a studio album and collaborated with artists such as Dean Fertita, Josh Homme and Iggy Pop.

---

07/05/1985

J Balvin, Colombian singer-songwriter and producer

José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, known professionally as J Balvin, is a Colombian singer. He is one of the best-selling Latin artists, with 35 million records sold worldwide. Balvin was born in Medellín. At age 17, he moved to the United States to learn English, living in both Oklahoma and New York. He then returned to Medellín and gained popularity performing at clubs in the city.

---

07/05/1984

James Loney, American baseball player

James Anthony Loney is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays, and New York Mets, and in the KBO League for the LG Twins.

---

Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler

Kevin Yanick Steen is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Kevin Owens.

---

Alex Smith, American football player

Alexander Douglas Smith is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons. He played college football for the Utah Utes, earning first-team All-American honors and winning MW Offensive Player of the Year in 2004. Smith was selected first overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the 2005 NFL draft.

---

07/05/1979

Katie Douglas, American basketball player

Kathryn Elizabeth Douglas is an American former professional basketball player. Her primary position was shooting guard, her secondary was small forward. She was known league-wide as one of the most prominent two-way players for her long-range shooting and high scoring abilities on offense as well as her defensive abilities.

---

07/05/1978

Dette Escudero, Filipino politician

Marie Bernadette "Dette" Guevara Escudero-Quirante is a Filipino politician who has served as the representative of Sorsogon's 1st district in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 2022. She was reelected to the position in 2025. Escudero has also served as the House deputy majority leader since 2025, having previously served as assistant majority leader from 2022 to 2025.

---

Shawn Marion, American basketball player

Shawn Dwayne Marion is an American former professional basketball player who played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He finished his career as a four-time NBA All-Star, a two-time member of the All-NBA Team and a one-time NBA champion, helping the Dallas Mavericks win their maiden title in 2011. Nicknamed "The Matrix" by former NBA player Kenny Smith during the preseason of his rookie year, Marion was widely regarded as one of the most versatile players in the league because of his athleticism and ability to play and defend many positions. He was also known for his unorthodox shooting form.

---

07/05/1976

Calvin Booth, American basketball player and executive

Calvin Lawrence Booth is a former NBA basketball player and team executive who most recently served as the general manager of the Denver Nuggets. He played 10 seasons for various NBA teams as a center after playing college basketball for the Penn State Nittany Lions. After his playing career concluded, he served in front office positions for the New Orleans Pelicans, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Denver Nuggets, eventually being named general manager of the Nuggets in 2020, a position he held until 2025.

---

Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player

Stacey William Jones is a New Zealand professional rugby league coach who is the head coach of New Zealand at international level. He is a former professional rugby league footballer who has been named amongst the greatest New Zealand has ever produced.

---

Michael P. Murphy, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2005)

Michael Patrick Murphy was a United States Navy SEAL officer who was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during the War in Afghanistan. He was the first member of the United States Navy (USN) to receive the award since the Vietnam War. His other posthumous awards include the Silver Star Medal and the Purple Heart.

---

Ayelet Shaked, former Israeli Minister of Justice

Ayelet Shaked is an Israeli former politician, activist, and software engineer. She served as Minister of Interior from 2021 to 2022 and as Minister of Justice from 2015 to 2019. Between 2013 and 2021, she was a representative in the Knesset as a member of The Jewish Home from 2013 to 2018, and then as a founding member of the New Right from 2018 to 2019 and again from 2019 to 2020. Shaked also served as the leader of the defunct right-wing electoral alliance Yamina. Despite her tenure in The Jewish Home, a religious political party, she has identified as a secularist.

---

07/05/1975

Martina Topley-Bird, English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

Martina Gillian Topley-Bird is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who first gained fame as the featured female vocalist on trip hop pioneer Tricky's debut album, Maxinquaye (1995). She also worked with him on his subsequent albums, Nearly God and Pre-Millennium Tension. In 2003, Topley-Bird released her debut solo album, Quixotic, which was critically praised and earned her a Mercury Prize nomination.

---

07/05/1974

Breckin Meyer, American actor, writer, and producer

Breckin Meyer is an American actor and podcaster. He is best known for his work on the Adult Swim animated sketch series Robot Chicken, which has earned him two Annie Awards and five Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

---

07/05/1972

Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist and wrestler

Frank Trigg is an American retired mixed martial artist, color commentator, pro wrestler, MMA referee and TV host. Trigg is a veteran of the UFC, Pride Fighting Championships, BAMMA, and the World Fighting Alliance, where he was the promotion's only Welterweight champion. He has professional wrestling appearances in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

---

07/05/1971

Thomas Piketty, French economist

Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).

---

07/05/1969

Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter

Eagle-Eye Lanoo Cherry is a Swedish singer and stage performer. His 1998 single "Save Tonight" achieved commercial success in Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom, and was voted song of the year in New Zealand. Cherry is the son of American jazz artist Don Cherry and Swedish artist and designer Moki Cherry.

---

07/05/1968

Traci Lords, American actress and singer

Traci Elizabeth Lords is an American actress and singer. As a 15-year-old high-school dropout, she used fake identity documents to enter the sex industry, where she began appearing in pornographic magazines and films. The September 1984 edition of Penthouse featured her as its centerfold, and she went on to become one of the most sought-after pornographic actresses of the mid-1980s, appearing in an estimated 75 adult films and videos. According to her autobiography, she entered the adult film industry in October 1984, making her 16 years old at the time. In 1986, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) received an anonymous tip that she had been a minor during her time in the industry. All pornographic material featuring Lords—except her last film, Traci, I Love You (1987), which had been shot two days after her 18th birthday—was removed from distribution in the United States as child pornography. Efforts to prosecute two producers and her former talent agent failed as Lords had used a stolen birth certificate to obtain a federal passport and California driver's license, thereby giving industry personnel a reasonable belief that she was over 18 at the time.

---

Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician, 30th Canadian Minister of Transport

Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt is a former Canadian politician who served as a federal Cabinet minister and member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, Raitt was elected to the House of Commons in the 2008 election, representing Halton. Shortly after her election, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named her minister of natural resources, holding the role until 2010, when she became minister of labour. In 2013, she became minister of transport, remaining in the role until the Conservatives were defeated by the Liberal Party in the 2015 election. Raitt was re-elected in the newly formed riding of Milton. She contested the Conservative leadership in 2017, losing to Andrew Scheer, who made her deputy party leader and deputy opposition leader, a role she would hold until she was defeated in the 2019 election. Since leaving politics, she has been the vice chair of Global Investment Banking at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).

---

07/05/1967

Roberto d'Amico, Belgian politician

Roberto d'Amico is a Belgian trade unionist, politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he has represented Hainaut since June 2019.

---

Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer

Martin John Bryant is an Australian mass murderer who shot and killed 35 people and injured 23 others in the Port Arthur massacre on 28 and 29 April 1996. He is currently serving 35 life sentences, and 1,652 years without the possibility of parole, at Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania.

---

Joe Rice, American colonel and politician

Joe Rice is a former legislator in the U.S. state of Colorado, an Iraq War veteran, and a former mayor of Glendale, Colorado.

---

07/05/1965

Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (died 1999)

Owen James Hart was a Canadian professional wrestler who worked for several promotions including Stampede Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He received most of his success in the WWF, where he wrestled under both his own name and the ring names The Blue Angel and The Blue Blazer.

---

Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer and manager

Norman Whiteside is a Northern Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and forward.

---

07/05/1961

Sue Black, Scottish anthropologist and academic

Susan Margaret Black, Baroness Black of Strome is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She was the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is past President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. She is President of St John's College, Oxford.

---

07/05/1960

Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic

Ara Warkes Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham is an Armenian-British surgeon, academic, and politician.

---

Almudena Grandes, Spanish author (died 2021)

María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."

---

07/05/1958

Anne Marie Rafferty, English nurse and academic

Anne Marie Rafferty, Baroness Rafferty is a British nurse, academic and researcher. She is the professor of nursing policy and the former dean of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London. She served as President of the Royal College of Nursing from 2019 to 2021.

---

William Ridenour, American politician

William "Bill" Ridenour is an American politician serving as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 100th district.

---

07/05/1956

Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch jurist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Jan Pieter Balkenende Jr., commonly known as Jan Peter Balkenende, is a Dutch jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 to 14 October 2010.

---

Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer

Anne Jennifer Dudley is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music.

---

Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer

Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner is an English theatre and film director, and film producer. He was previously the Artistic Director of London's National Theatre. His major successes as director include Miss Saigon, The History Boys and One Man, Two Guvnors. He is also known for directing films such as The Madness of King George (1994), The Crucible (1996), The History Boys (2006), and The Lady in the Van (2015). Hytner was knighted in the 2010 New Year Honours for services to drama by Queen Elizabeth II.

---

Jean Lapierre, Canadian talk show host and politician (died 2016)

Jean-Charles Lapierre was a Canadian politician and television and radio broadcaster. After retiring from the government in 2007, he served as a political analyst in a variety of venues.

---

07/05/1954

Amy Heckerling, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Amy Heckerling is an American writer, producer, and director. Heckerling started out her career after graduating from New York University and entering the American Film Institute, making small student films. Heckerling is a recipient of AFI's Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal celebrating her creative talents and artistic achievements. She struggled to break out into big films up until the release of her breakout film Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982).

---

07/05/1950

John Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman

John Dowling Coates is an Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) having been a vice president from 2013 to 2017 and again since 2020, and is the former president of the Australian Olympic Committee and chair of the Australian Olympic Foundation. Alongside these roles Coates is also the president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

---

Tim Russert, American television journalist and lawyer (died 2008)

Timothy John Russert was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He was a senior vice president at NBC News and Washington bureau chief, and also hosted an eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program. He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time magazine included Russert in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was posthumously revealed as a 30-year source for syndicated columnist Robert Novak.

---

07/05/1946

Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco singer and actress

Thelma Houston is an American singer and actress. Beginning her recording career in the late 1960s, Houston scored a number-one hit in 1977 with her recording of "Don't Leave Me This Way", which won the Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.

---

Marv Hubbard, American football player (died 2015)

Marvin Ronald Hubbard was an American professional football fullback who played seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily for the Oakland Raiders.

---

Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer

William Kreutzmann Jr. is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to perform with former members of the Grateful Dead in various lineups, and with his own bands BK3, 7 Walkers and Billy & the Kids.

---

Michael Rosen, English author and poet

Michael Wayne Rosen is an English children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster, activist, and academic, who is a professor of children's literature in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written more than 200 books for children and adults. Select books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt (1989) and Sad Book (2004). He served as Children's Laureate from June 2007 to June 2009. He won the 2023 PEN Pinter Prize, awarded by English PEN, for his "fearless" body of work.

---

07/05/1945

Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was one of the founding members of the bands Planxty and Moving Hearts and has had significant success as a solo artist. His first album, Paddy on the Road, was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. Moore is best known for his political and social commentary and left-wing, Irish republican views. In 2007, he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards. Moore is most known for his unqiue style, including driving rhythms on six-string acoustic guitar and bodhrán as well as slower ballads.

---

Robin Strasser, American actress

Robin Victory in Europe Strasser is an American actress, best known for her role as Dorian Lord on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live.

---

07/05/1943

Terry Allen, American singer and painter

Terry Allen is an American singer-songwriter and visual artist from Lubbock, Texas. Allen's musical career spans several albums in the Texas country and outlaw country genres, and his visual art includes painting, conceptual art, performance, and sculpture, with a number of notable bronze sculptures installed publicly in various cities throughout the United States. He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

---

John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (died 2015)

John Charles Bannon was an Australian politician and academic. He was the 39th Premier of South Australia, leading the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from a single term in opposition back to government at the 1982 election.

---

Peter Carey, Australian novelist and short story writer

Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.

---

07/05/1940

Angela Carter, English novelist and short story writer (died 1992)

Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

---

07/05/1939

Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)

Sidney Altman was a Canadian-American molecular biologist, who was the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic properties of RNA.

---

Ruggero Deodato, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)

Ruggero Deodato was an Italian film and television director, screenwriter, and occasional actor.

---

Ruud Lubbers, Dutch economist and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2018)

Rudolphus Franciscus Marie "Ruud" Lubbers was a Dutch politician, diplomat and businessman who served as prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 2001 to 2005. He was a member of the Catholic People's Party (KVP), which later merged to become the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party.

---

Johnny Maestro, American pop/doo-wop singer (died 2010)

John Peter Mastrangelo, known as Johnny Maestro, was an American pop singer. He was the lead vocalist for the doo-wop group The Crests, whose song "16 Candles" went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. He later led The Brooklyn Bridge, who are best known for their cover of the Jimmy Webb song "Worst That Could Happen".

---

07/05/1936

Tony O'Reilly, Irish rugby player and businessman (died 2024)

Sir Anthony John Francis O'Reilly was an Irish businessman and international rugby union player. He was known for his try scoring in rugby, his involvement in the Independent News & Media Group, which he led from 1973 to 2009, and as CEO and chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company. He was the leading shareholder of Waterford Wedgwood and a founder and major supporter of The Ireland Funds. A citizen of both Ireland and the United Kingdom, he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor for his services to Northern Ireland.

---

07/05/1935

Michael Hopkins, English architect (died 2023)

Sir Michael John Hopkins was an English architect.

---

07/05/1933

Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster (died 2002)

John Constantine Unitas was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Baltimore Colts. Nicknamed "Johnny U." and "the Golden Arm", Unitas was considered the prototype of the modern era marquee quarterback and is regarded as one of the greatest NFL players of all time.

---

07/05/1932

Pete Domenici, American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (died 2017)

Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from New Mexico from 1973 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he served six terms in the Senate, making him the longest-tenured U.S. Senator in the state's history. To date, Domenici is the last Republican to be elected to the Senate from New Mexico. He was succeeded by Democratic U.S. Representative Tom Udall.

---

Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (died 1997)

Derek Wyn Taylor was a British journalist, writer, publicist and record producer. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, with whom he worked in 1964 and then from 1968 to 1970, and was one of several associates to earn the moniker "the Fifth Beatle". Before returning to London to head the publicity for the Beatles' Apple Corps organisation in 1968, he worked as the publicist for California-based bands such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas. Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as "The Beatles Are Coming" and "Brian Wilson Is a Genius". He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos and helped stage that year's Monterey Pop Festival.

---

07/05/1931

Teresa Brewer, American singer (died 2007)

Teresa Brewer was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, rock 'n roll, musicals, and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording around 600 songs.

---

Gene Wolfe, American author (died 2019)

Gene Rodman Wolfe was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose, his fascination with memory and the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist who won many literary awards. He was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

---

07/05/1930

Babe Parilli, American football player and coach (died 2017)

Vito "Babe" Parilli was an American professional football quarterback and coach who played for 18 seasons. Parilli played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL), 10 in the American Football League (AFL), and three in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats, twice receiving consensus All-American honors and winning two consecutive bowl games.

---

07/05/1929

Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2011)

Richard Hirschfeld Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front-office consultant in Major League Baseball (MLB). Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1988, he led teams to three American League pennants, one National League pennant, and two World Series triumphs. He is one of nine managers to win pennants in both major leagues, and joined Bill McKechnie in becoming only the second manager to lead three franchises to the Series. He and Lou Piniella are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. Williams was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 following his election by the Veterans Committee.

---

07/05/1927

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.

---

07/05/1923

Anne Baxter, American actress (died 1985)

Anne Baxter was an American actress, star of Hollywood films, Broadway productions, and television series. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and seven Photoplay Awards, and was nominated for an Emmy and two Laurel Awards.

---

07/05/1922

Darren McGavin, American actor and director (died 2006)

Darren McGavin was an American actor.

---

07/05/1920

Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (died 1985)

Raden Soekarno, better known as Rendra Karno, was an Indonesian actor. Born in Kutoarjo, Central Java, Soekarno entered the film industry in 1941, making his debut appearance in Union Films' Soeara Berbisa. Over the next forty years he appeared in more than fifty films. He was also involved in the theatre during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and the Indonesian National Revolution. For his role in 1962's Bajangan di Waktu Fadjar, he was named best supporting actor at the 1963 Asian Film Festival in Tokyo.

---

07/05/1919

Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (died 1952)

María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva "Evita" Perón, was an Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. She was born into poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. In 1934, at the age of 15, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. She married Perón in 1945, when he was still an army colonel, and was propelled onto the political stage when he became President of Argentina in 1946. She became a central figure of Peronism and Argentine culture because of the Eva Perón Foundation, a charitable organization perceived by many Argentinians as highly impactful.

---

07/05/1917

Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (died 2013)

Domenico Bartolucci was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the former director of the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and was recognised in the field of music both as a director and a prolific composer. Considered among the most authoritative interpreters of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Bartolucci led the Sistine Chapel Choir in performances worldwide, and also directed numerous concerts with the Choir of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, including a tour of the former Soviet Union.

---

Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (died 2020)

Sir Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt was an Australian public servant. His career in the Commonwealth Public Service spanned from 1939 to 1980, and included periods as a senior adviser and departmental secretary. His most prominent position was as secretary of the Prime Minister's Department during the Gorton government (1968–1971). He worked closely with Prime Minister John Gorton, although his initial appointment in place of John Bunting was seen as unconventional. Hewitt was also influential as secretary of the Department of Minerals and Energy during the Whitlam government (1972–1975), working under minister Rex Connor. He later served as chairman of Qantas (1975–1980).

---

David Tomlinson, English actor (died 2000)

David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading actor and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles with The Walt Disney Company as the patriarch father George Banks in Mary Poppins (1964), hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug (1968) and the friendly con man Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Tomlinson was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend in 2002.

---

07/05/1913

Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (died 2016)

Simon Ramo was an American engineer, businessman, and author. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He also developed General Electric's electron microscope and played prominent roles in the formation of two Fortune 500 companies, Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW) and Bunker Ramo Corporation.

---

07/05/1911

Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1993)

Ishirō Honda was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades. He is acknowledged as the most internationally successful Japanese filmmaker prior to Hayao Miyazaki and one of the founders of modern disaster film, with his films having a significant influence on the film industry. Despite directing many drama, war, documentary, and comedy films, Honda is best remembered for directing and co-creating the kaiju genre with special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya.

---

07/05/1909

Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (died 1991)

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in one minute or less.

---

Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino, Native American teacher (died 2005)

Dorothy Sunrise Lorentino was a Comanche teacher from Oklahoma. As a child, she won a landmark education judgment against the Cache Consolidated School District of Comanche County, Oklahoma for Native American children to attend public schools rather than government-mandated Bureau of Indian Affairs Schools. It was a precursor case to both the Alice Piper v. Pine School District (1924) which allowed Native American children to attend school in California and Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which decided separate schooling based on race was unconstitutional. Language from her judgment was incorporated into the Indian Citizenship Act (1924). Having won the right to attend public school, she went on to earn credentials as a special education teacher and taught for over forty years. In 1997, she was the first Native American and the first Oklahoman to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame.

---

07/05/1905

Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (died 1989)

Sir John Philip Baxter was a British-Australian chemical engineer. He was the second director of the University of New South Wales from 1953, continuing as vice-chancellor when the position's title was changed in 1955. Under his administration, the university grew from its technical college roots into the "fastest growing and most rapidly diversifying tertiary institution in Australia". Philip Baxter College is named in his honour.

---

07/05/1903

Nikolay Zabolotsky, Russian-Soviet poet and translator (died 1958)

Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotsky was a prominent Soviet and Russian poet and translator.

---

07/05/1901

Gary Cooper, American actor (died 1961)

Gary Cooper was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, as well as an Academy Honorary Award in 1961 for his career achievements. He was one of the top-10 film personalities for 23 consecutive years and one of the top money-making stars for 18 years. The American Film Institute (AFI) ranked Cooper at number 11 on its list of the 50 greatest screen legends.

---

07/05/1899

Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and academic (died 1998)

Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.

---

07/05/1896

Kathleen McKane Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (died 1992)

Kathleen "Kitty" McKane Godfree was a British tennis and badminton player and the second most decorated female British Olympian, joint with Katherine Grainger.

---

07/05/1893

Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (died 1985)

Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke was a Canadian professional ice hockey executive in the National Hockey League. He was a nine-time Stanley Cup champion with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens and a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee.

---

07/05/1892

Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (died 1982)

Archibald MacLeish was an American poet and writer, who was associated with the modernist school of poetry. MacLeish studied English at Yale University and law at Harvard University. He enlisted in and saw action during the First World War and lived in Paris in the 1920s. On returning to the United States, he contributed to Henry Luce's magazine Fortune from 1929 to 1938. For five years, MacLeish was the ninth Librarian of Congress, a post he accepted at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. From 1949 to 1962, he was Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard. He was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.

---

Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (died 1980)

Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1943 to 1963 and as president from 1953 until his death in 1980. He was the longtime leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II, and was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. The political ideology and policies associated with his rule are known as Titoism.

---

07/05/1891

Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (died 1988)

Harry McShane was a Scottish socialist, and a close colleague of John Maclean.

---

07/05/1889

Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (died 1943)

Viktor Puskar VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander (Colonel) during the Estonian War of Independence.

---

07/05/1885

George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (died 1969)

George Francis "Gabby" Hayes was an American actor. He began as something of a leading man and a character player, but he was best known for his numerous appearances in B-Western film series as the bewhiskered, cantankerous, but ever-loyal and brave comic sidekick of the cowboy stars William Boyd, Roy Rogers and John Wayne.

---

07/05/1882

Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (died 1960)

Alphonsus Josephus de Ridder was a Belgian writer and poet who wrote under the pseudonym Willem Elsschot. One of the most prominent Flemish authors, his most famous work, Cheese (1933) is the most translated Flemish-language novel of all time.

---

07/05/1881

George E. Wiley, American cyclist (died 1954)

George Elsworth Wiley was an American racing cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century.

---

07/05/1880

Pandurang Vaman Kane, Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (died 1972)

Pandurang Vaman Kane was an Indian academic, historian, lawyer, Indologist, and Sanskrit scholar. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 1963.

---

07/05/1875

Bill Hoyt, American pole vaulter (died 1951)

William Welles Hoyt was an American track and field athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

---

07/05/1867

Władysław Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1925)

Władysław Stanisław Reymont was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi.

---

07/05/1861

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)

Rabindranath Thakur, also known by his pseudonym Bhanusimha was a Bengali polymath of the Bengal Renaissance period. In 1913, Tagore became the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize in any category, and also the first lyricist and non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A significant moulder of culture within the Indian subcontinent, he wrote and composed the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.

---

07/05/1860

Tom Norman, English businessman (died 1930)

Tom Norman, born Thomas Noakes, was an English businessman, showman and the last exhibitor of Joseph Merrick who was otherwise known as the "Elephant Man". Among his later exhibits were a troupe of little people, a "Man in a Trance", "John Chambers, the armless Carpenter", and the "World's Ugliest Woman".

---

07/05/1857

William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (died 1930)

William Alexander MacCorkle, was an American teacher, lawyer, prosecutor, the ninth governor of West Virginia and state legislator of West Virginia, and financier. His residence in Charleston, known as Sunrise, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

---

07/05/1847

Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1929)

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.

---

07/05/1845

Mary Eliza Mahoney, American nurse and activist (died 1926)

Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first African American to study and work as a professionally trained nurse in the United States. In 1879, Mahoney was the first African American to graduate from an American school of nursing.

---

07/05/1840

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (died 1893)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, the Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy, several symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.

---

07/05/1837

Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (died 1875)

Karl Gottlieb Mauch was a German explorer and geographer of Africa. He reported on the archaeological ruins of Great Zimbabwe in 1871 during his search for the biblical land of Ophir.

---

07/05/1836

Joseph Gurney Cannon, American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1926)

Joseph Gurney Cannon was an American politician from Illinois and a leader of the Republican Party. Cannon represented parts of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives for twenty-three non-consecutive terms between 1873 and 1923; upon his retirement, he was the longest serving member of the United States Congress ever. From 1903 to 1911, he presided as Speaker of the House, becoming one of the most powerful speakers in United States history.

---

07/05/1833

Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (died 1897)

Johannes Brahms was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. His music is noted for its rhythmic vitality and freer treatment of dissonance, often set within studied yet expressive contrapuntal textures. He adapted the traditional structures and techniques of a wide historical range of earlier composers. His œuvre includes four symphonies, four concertos, a Requiem, much chamber music, and hundreds of folk-song arrangements and Lieder, among other works for symphony orchestra, piano, organ, and choir.

---

07/05/1812

Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (died 1889)

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax.

---

07/05/1787

Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (died 1858)

Jacques Viger was an antiquarian, archaeologist, and the first mayor of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

---

07/05/1774

William Bainbridge, American commodore (died 1833)

Commodore William Bainbridge was a United States Navy officer. During his long career in the young American navy he served under six presidents beginning with John Adams and is notable for his many victories at sea. He commanded several famous naval ships, including the USS Constitution, and saw service in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. Bainbridge was also in command of the USS Philadelphia when she grounded off the shores of Tripoli, Libya in North Africa, resulting in his capture and imprisonment for many months. In the latter part of his career he became the U.S. Naval Commissioner.

---

07/05/1767

Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (died 1820)

Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia was a Prussian princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was the eldest daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and the wife of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of King George III of the United Kingdom.

---

07/05/1763

Józef Poniatowski, Polish general (died 1813)

Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish military officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

---

07/05/1751

Stephen Badlam, American artisan and military officer (died 1815)

Stephen Badlam was an American artisan and military officer. Raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Badlam was orphaned as a young child following the death of his father, a tavern-keeper and cabinetmaker. Badlam worked as a surveyor prior to the American Revolutionary War, where he served as an artillery commander in engagements in New York, Canada, and Vermont, serving as a major in General Richard Montgomery's ill-fated 1775 invasion of Quebec. After serving at Fort Stanwix, he fell gravely ill and was forced to return home with his wife to Dorchester.

---

07/05/1748

Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher (died 1793)

Olympe de Gouges was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.

---

07/05/1740

Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (died 1814)

Nikolai Petrovich Arkharov was a Russian chief of police best known for having given his name to the Russian term arkharovtsy, an ironic appellation of policemen.

---

07/05/1724

Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (died 1797)

Dagobert Sigmund, Count von Wurmser was an Austrian field marshal during the French Revolutionary Wars. Although he fought in the Seven Years' War, the War of the Bavarian Succession, and mounted several successful campaigns in the Rhineland in the initial years of the French Revolutionary Wars, he is probably most remembered for his unsuccessful operations against Napoleon Bonaparte during the 1796 campaign in Italy.

---

07/05/1711

David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (died 1776)

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist who is known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical scepticism and metaphysical naturalism. Beginning with A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40), Hume strove to create a naturalistic science of man that examined the psychological basis of human nature. Hume followed John Locke in rejecting the existence of innate ideas, concluding that all human knowledge derives solely from experience; this places him amongst such empiricists as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Locke and George Berkeley.

---

07/05/1701

Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer (died 1759)

Carl Heinrich Graun was a German composer and tenor. Along with Johann Adolph Hasse, he is considered to be the most important German composer of Italian opera of his time.

---

07/05/1700

Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (died 1772)

Gerard van Swieten was a Dutch physician who from 1745 was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and transformed the Austrian health service and medical university education. He was the father of Gottfried van Swieten, patron of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

---

07/05/1643

Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York City (died 1700)

Stephanus van Cortlandt was the first native-born mayor of New York City, a position which he held from 1677 to 1678 and from 1686 to 1688. He was the patroon of van Cortlandt Manor and was on the governor's executive council from 1691 to 1700. He was the first resident of Sagtikos Manor in West Bay Shore on Long Island, which was built around 1697. A number of his descendants married English military leaders and Loyalists active in the American Revolution, and their descendants became prominent members of English society.

---

07/05/1605

Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (died 1681)

Nikon, born Nikita Minin was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666. He was renowned for his eloquence, energy, piety and close ties to Tsar Alexis of Russia. Nikon introduced many reforms, including liturgical reforms that were unpopular among conservatives. These divisions eventually led to a lasting schism known as Raskol (schism) in the Russian Orthodox Church. For many years, he was a dominant political figure, often equaling or even overshadowing the Tsar. In December 1667, Nikon was tried by a synod of church officials, deprived of all his sacerdotal functions, and reduced to the status of a simple monk.

---

07/05/1553

Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia (died 1618)

Albert Frederick was the Duke of Prussia, from 1568 until his death. He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

---

07/05/1530

Louis, Prince of Condé (died 1569)

Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé was a prominent Huguenot leader and general, the founder of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. Coming from a position of relative political unimportance during the reign of Henri II, Condé's support for the Huguenots, along with his leading role in the conspiracy of Amboise and its aftermath, pushed him to the centre of French politics. Arrested during the reign of Francis II then released upon the latter's premature death, he would lead the Huguenot forces in the first three civil wars of the French Wars of Religion before being executed after his defeat at the Battle of Jarnac in 1569.

---

07/05/1488

John III of the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (died 1538)

John III of the Palatinate was the 48th Archbishop of Regensburg. He reigned from 1507 until his death.

---